Can’t Sleep: Fly Spaceships Instead

I have been awake for nearly an hour already today and it’s still
only five in the morning.

I tossed and turned for nearly half an hour before I gave up and got out of
bed at around twenty after four. During the week that would only be an hour
and a half before my alarm goes off, which isn’t such a horrible thing.

I’m getting up so early now because some team changes at work mean that most
of the team is in India; an 11.5 hour time difference between us. To have our
meetings we have resorted in North America to early morning meetings while our
colleagues in India get to meet during their evenings.

As working environment that team setup just sucks. The schedule however does
not bother me because it has allowed me to shift my typical working hours
closer to 7-3 than 9-5. This means that even during the longest winter days I
get to leave work while the sun is still out.

For whatever reason though, I was unable to sleep in this morning. So now I
am up, having coffee at 5 AM on a Saturday. Obviously the logical thing to do
is fly a spaceship around the galaxy for a few hours.

I’m using the EDDB website to maximize the profit of a short 2 stop trade
route for the Type 7. The goal, as mentioned in my recent ED posts is to save
up for a Type 9 Cargo Hauler. At around 3K profit per ton it is slow going but
progress is being made. I’m sitting on just over 10M creds and it is slowly increasing.

The biggest profit maker is the trading. Routes like this short loop aren’t
very good for selling exploration data because you are repeating the route
over and over. As such I’m tempted to replace the Advanced Discovery Scanner
on my Type 7 with more cargo space. We shall see…